Quotes About Author

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.

I feel like I've proven that I can be a starter in this league, and I want to be respected in that way.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Chelsea is a big club, a club that has given me the opportunity to play as a starter, to grow even more.

One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like you, but slightly caricatured.

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

I'm still startled when people ask me for writing advice.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.